Postcard For Reader

Rosy Vintage Postcards

I spent a rosy day in Provins!

This French medieval town is famous for it's rose candy, lemonade, jam, honey, soap, oil, tea, liqueur... Breakfast was a hunk of baguette smothered in perfumed rose petal preserves with too much butter. It was divine!

Good Ole Eleanor Roosevelt can make a girl gasp and giggle. 'I once had a rose named after me and was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against the wall.'

  1. > Daan Jippes (Part 6)
  2. > Family Handyman
  3. > The Landing Mall, 1960s
  4. > Robert McGinnis
  5. > Harry Borgman